Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Have you ever seen an entire galaxy with your naked eyes? You can see it now. Late October offers a prime opportunity for skywatchers to spot the ancient light of the Andromeda galaxy, which climbs ...

S targazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

Did you know that you can see the closest spiral galaxy next to our own in the sky? While binoculars and telescopes will offer much better views, it’s still possible to see it with your naked eye if ...

The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological dance. Astronomers have long known that Andromeda is on ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

A head-on collision of the Andromeda Galaxy with the Milky Way is coming, according to astronomers! The next clear late November night you can see Andromeda, which is literally getting bigger second ...

The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go stargazing at a dark sky site, away from light pollution. One of my favorite deep sky objects to locate, with just my eyes, is the Andromeda galaxy. The ...

Andromeda (M31), the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slated to collide with our galaxy in several billion years, a process expected to be gradual rather than abrupt. Historical observations ...